PoC
[piːʔɔʊ̯ˈsiː]
The verdict
“PoC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #49,161) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #49,161
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Person of Color
Corpus desk
Index DE-poc · PoC · German
PoC · rank #49,161 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,161
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Planken
Nearest frequency peer: Planken (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „PoC“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Pixeln
Pixeln
50,843 corpus weight
- Planken
Planken
50,841 corpus weight
- PoC
PoC
50,840 corpus weight
- Pongau
Pongau
50,839 corpus weight
- postete
postete
50,838 corpus weight
- presents
presents
50,837 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „PoC“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | PoC |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [piːʔɔʊ̯ˈsiː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #49,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „PoC“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for PoC is neighbouring look-alikes ("PS", "Pr", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [piːʔɔʊ̯ˈsiː]. Frequency #49,161 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Person of Color".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for PoC, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pr", "PV", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is PoC, spelled P-O-C.
Definition
- 1Person of Color
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how PoC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wobei der Begriff ja auch unter PoC sehr kontrovers diskutiert wird, gerade weil damit eine biologische Dimension sprachlich markiert wird.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).